Grimms' Fairy Tales, King Grisly-beard, sentence 65

She sprang to the door to run away; but on the steps King Grisly-beard overtook her, and brought her back and said, ‘Fear me not!

Who acts: princess, beard, Fear · What happens: spring, run away, overtake, bring back, not say · To what, where: door, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, King Grisly-beard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, beard, Fear), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 door	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 run	mark
7	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sprang	advcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 run	advmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 overtook	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 overtook	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 steps	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 steps	det
13	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 overtook	obl
14	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 beard	nmod:poss
15	Grisly	grisly	ADV	_	14 King	advmod
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Grisly	punct
17	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 overtook	nsubj
18	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 overtook	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brought	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 brought	cc
22	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 overtook	conj
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 brought	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	22 brought	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 overtook	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Fear	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	29 Fear	punct
29	Fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 Fear	obj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 said	advmod
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	past	princess			the door		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to door=Destination
2	run away	to-infinitive	princess not said here				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	overtake	past	King's beard	princess			on the steps	tree rules
4	bring back	past	King's beard not said here		princess			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
5	not say speech: assert	past	Fear					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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